On 01/04/16 22:26, Andrew Gregory wrote:
On 04/01/16 at 02:23pm, Allan McRae wrote:
It is useful to be able to use "pacman -Qi" on any dependency, even if that dependency is a provide. For example, on Arch Linux systems, "sh" is provided by the "bash" package, and many packages depend on "sh". Querying the what package the "sh" dependency, currently first requires searching for "sh".
s/Querying the what package/Querying the package that provides/?
This patch allows the use of "pacman -Qi" on a provide.
Fixes FS#20650.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> --- src/pacman/query.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
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Any reason not to just use alpm_find_satisfier here?
No... That would make this patch much more simple! A